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They really have us trapped with WhatsApp… difficult to figure out how to get off this platform
by redwood 5y ago
They really have us trapped with WhatsApp… difficult to figure out how to get off this platform
- timmg 5y agoMy friend group switched to Signal en masse. YMMV.
- pmlnr 5y agoYay, another platform without the possibility to become decentralized, with a leader who basically opposes standards based development, great step forwards.
- ummonk 5y agoMonolithic platforms are significantly more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development, and thus are the ones that actually experience significant adoption. This is just a fundamental reality.
- pmlnr 5y ago> more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development That is shortsighted. Email, which is standards based, has been around for 50 years. I have a strong sense that Signal won't be around in 2064.
- ummonk 5y agoMost people use Gmail. Email is a standards based legacy technology that has inertia, like fax machines; it doesn't mean people prefer standards based technologies.
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- busymom0 5y agoSame here. All my frequent messaging friends are on signal now. Oy an infrequent group chat is on messenger.
- redwood 5y agoHard with wider friend network, family, even work colleagues
- kshacker 5y agoWe had a campaign to switch to signal, it fizzled out pretty quickly. I am part of 6 active groups from school to work days, and 1 of them split and exists on both WhatsApp and Signal - signal for sports talk, WhatsApp for everything else, but every other group that tried, moved back. WhatsApp has too much "moat".
- amelius 5y agoI hear the EU is working to make interoperability between platforms a thing. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/eu-parliament-takes-first-step-towards-fair-and-interoperable-market https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/eu-parliament-takes-fi...
- markdown 5y agoOr Viber, in my part of the world.